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Windows 8 Professional - Microsoft has already released Windows 8 beta version for developers but of course you can also download and install it absolutely free on your very own PC to test and taste the latest operating system from Microsoft. You may have already downloaded and install windows 8 themes or Windows 8 transformation pack like Omnimo but this is real windows 8 with full features and GUI designs. Microsoft is giving away an ISO image so you need to burn it using DVD burner via DVD image burner software.

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What’s New

Windows 8 RC free Product Key and you will find inside this package Windows OS, internet explorer 10, windows applications and new touch screen interface. Microsoft knows that the future is all about touch devices so they shifted their windows mode to touch screen for both regular computing as well as touch devices.

The new start up screen is completely redesigned and now you will only see application which you are using most of the time on your main screen. The icons are now called apps and not only it will show your the icon of the program but the important information as well.

Fastest Windows 8 RC free Product Keys ever as it boots from DOS to Main Screen in just 5 seconds which is really fast. I think that now Microsoft have left behind the Mac for speed and performance with its so rich features.

Main interface now contains tiles which are called Metro tiles by Microsoft. These are very similar to the touch screen devices thumbnails for easy navigation and usage.

Forget your traditional keyboard and mouse when you can use both these functionalities with your touch device. Much like a smart phone screen it enables you to use your computer any where in the world with so much ease.

Internet Explorer 10 has shipped with all the functionalities which were missing in the previous versions. CSS3 and HTML5 support makes this browser one of the top used browser in the world. Its so fast and beautiful that you will surly love it. With its tab features you can easily switch between websites with just one click of a button.

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Windows 8 Features

If you are following the release of windows from its first version than you may have noticed that Microsoft gives its customers one hit version and other flop version. As we all know that Windows 7 was a big hit so this time for a flop show by Microsoft.

Well we all hope that this will not happen and free product keys of Windows 8 RC will be a great hit and provide us the functionality which fulfills all our demands. Windows 8 is available in more than 14 languages so that it can be used by all round the world.

It has lots of new applications like Bing Travel app, Gaming feature and Music Xbox apps for Microsoft’s Zune music service. Now you can directly download songs and movies from Microsoft store and connect your PC with the HD console.

Behind the beautiful looks of windows 8 you will find the functionalities and base of windows 7 which is a truly hit by Microsoft. Its has very few security loop holes and works perfectly with each and every device manager.

Windows 8 is Cloud-Connected

Microsoft has just introduced a new features in this version which allows you to connect your device from your main PC at home via internet. This means that all your files and folders can be accessed from any where in the world which means that you don’t need to carry your files with you all the time.

Cloud computing is the future of personal computing which will really revolutionize the way we use laptops. Now you will be connected to your personal computers 24/7 which means more productivity and more profits.

Stay connected to your beloved ones and reduce the costs of phone billing by using social media websites like Facebook and Skype.

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How to use BitTorrent to send files

Note: If you are new to uTorrent and don’t know how to download files, see this tutorial.

Another note: It appears that some users (probably only Azureus) are being asked for a username/password for authentication when opening the torrent. Just clicking “Cancel” on that window seems to work fine.

Yet another note: Please don’t post support issues here, this is not the official troubleshooting forum. Support requests here will be ignored/deleted, only post issues about the actual walkthrough. You can post problems at the official uTorrent forums.

Being a computer engineer, I have a lot of files to transfer. Usually we are able to use IM to send/receive files, but they clients’ transfer functions aren’t very good, so usually the files are slow, they stop transferring, you can’t stop them or resume them, and they’re generally very cumbersome.

Seeing how everyone these days has a BitTorrent client, I thought “why not use it to send files to people? That’s what it’s made for!” It’s very easy to send a file via BitTorrent, and you can send it to many people at once and the speed will still be very good, so I decided to write a small tutorial to show people how easy it is and how well it works.

The tutorial is focused on uTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client, but it’s about the same with other clients. This introduction served only to distract you while the tutorial is loading (and it should have loaded by now), so watch it and you should be able to send any file anywhere in just minutes!

By the way, if you’re going to send something to many people, you could enable “Super seeding” in the torrent creation dialog. That sends the whole file to those people with the fastest connections first so they can redistribute it even if you leave.

If you want to know what all these settings you just changed did, here’s a quick rundown on how BitTorrent works: The .torrent file you create contains a bit of information about the files you want to send, the address of the tracker computer, etc. When you send this file to someone (by email, IM, or any other way) and they open it, their client connects to the tracker and asks it to tell them who else has this file. The tracker does this, and they connect to other people and download the parts of the file they don’t have and upload the parts they have.

The information in the torrent file make sure that the data you download is correct and not corrupt somehow, and the tracker’s job is to tell the people who are downloading who all is in the “swarm”. The port number you changed is where on your computer people will connect to “talk” to your client and the advanced setting was to allow uTorrent to become a tracker (otherwise noone would know that you had the file). In this case you are both the tracker and the seed (the person who has the file), but there is no reason why these can’t be (and usually are) on different computers. As a sidenote, if you have a dynamic IP, you should use a service like DynDNS to get a permanent hostname or make sure that your IP doesn’t change for as long as you want to remain a tracker.

A little sidenote on trackerless torrents: The programs who support them (they will say they have DHT support) no longer need a tracker, but they do a search that is similar to how you search p2p networks like eMule, Gnutella, etc to find the torrent. They do that if the tracker is not accessible, so theoretically you could just skip all these steps and directly create the torrent without any tracker address in it, and (if all the people use compatible programs) the torrent would still work.

That’s about it, post comments here or look at the uTorrent FAQ if you have any questions.

This article explains how to share large files with either your friends (privately) or with anyone (publicly) using BitTorrent and uTorrent, optionally using uTorrent's built in embedded tracker..

DISCLAIMER

Proceed at your own risk! The information here is accurate to the best of our knowledge. We will not be held responsible if this document causes your computer to explode or burst into flames. In real serious terms, if any corruption of data, hardware damage or any other kind of damage/losses/etc. arises from the use of this document, We will not be responsible for it. If you don't like this, please don't read any further.

Introduction

What are the options when you want to send a 4.3GB DVD folder to your family, relatives and friends? Rapidshare? Megaupload? Or<gulp>... MSN? Free media file hosts have some limits either in the maximum data you can download per day, or the constant nagging to buy their premium service. And MSN is not designed for sending such large files - just imagine if the file stalled at the 97% mark - You will need to resend the entire file! MSN's Shared Folders had some promise but it was later replaced by SkyDrive, which limits each file to 50MB, although it gives 25GB of space.

So what other alternative is there? There's FTP. Or you can take a risk and send it via MSN. Or you can split the file in segments and upload it to a SkyDrive, RapidShare, MegaUpload or other file hosting server.

If you have a web hosting server, you can upload it to there. But chances are your web host will not be too happy about it as their terms of service do not allow you to share resource intensive files. Except perhaps our web host, DreamHost - they offer a huge 50GB of space just for backups, along with their normal webspace so you can use it as a convenient file storage centre.

So what else?

Enter Bittorrent - a very efficient peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol to share your files with anyone, anywhere. You can share files privately within only people you choose, or publicly with anyone on the Internet. The only requirement is a internet connection.

Starting off...

A tracker is needed for all peers to connect to for a updated list of peers. Fortunately, utorrent comes with a built-in tracker function that we will utilize for this guide. If you want to use an external tracker such as OpenBitTorrent, obtain the announcer URL from the site. It will look something like this: http://site.com/announce or udp://site.com:1111. In OpenBitTorrent's case, it will be http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce and udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce .

For torrents you intend to share with everyone, you will also need to upload the torrent to a tracker site (such as legaltorrents.com) with an appropriate title and description for others to find and download.

Otherwise, you can simply use uTorrent's built-in tracker and upload it to a personal website. In any case, for everyone to be able to download your files, they will need to obtain the torrent file from somewhere such as an online site, via e-mail, via MSN or via file sharing sites such as RapidShare. Without it, they will not be able to download your files.

Pros and Cons of Using uTorrent's Built-In Embedded Tracker

Pros

Cons

Private. Only you and the people you send the torrent to know about your torrent.

Your IP address must not change. IP addresses can change if you use a dial-up connection and need to manually reconnect to the Internet every time you switch on the computer.
If you are using a broadband router such as 2Wire, Linksys, DLink, Belkin, etc, chances are that your IP address never changes unless you restart your router. If it does, it can be somewhat subverted with services like No-ip but the downloaders will be need to be told specifically to refresh their DNS when your IP changes

Simple. Just an on/off switch - not much fuss needed

No control over who can connect to the tracker (unless a firewall is used, advanced). Anyone can connect to your tracker and share their torrent IF and only IF they know your IP address and port number. And you wouldn't know - as uTorrent has no interface to show what is going on in the tracker!
However, the occurrence of this is very rare as the person would need to know your IP address and port. Also, the person can only use your tracker to share files from his own PC so it is a very very minor con.

So which one should you use? If you are creating a torrent only to share with people you know, go with uTorrent's built-in tracker. Else, for torrents that you want anyone to be able to download, go with public trackers.

Using uTorrent's Built-In Tracker

This step is only necessary if you are using uTorrent's built in embedded tracker. If you are using public trackers, it is not needed and you can skip to the next section.

Start uTorrent (if it is already not running)

Check that your port is opened properly by entering your port number below and clicking Submit. Ensure that uTorrent is running before submitting.

uTorrent Port Checker

Enter the port number in this box and click .

Your port number can be found in uTorrent > Options > Preferences > Connection > 'Port used for incoming connections:'.

When you click Submit, there should be a OK! word with a green background as shown in the screen shot below. If not, please read the guide on how to port forward as port forwarding is important for downloaders to be able to connect to you.

Note down the IP address mentioned in the line

Checking port ..(Port Number)... on ...(IP Address)...

Here is a screen shot to better explain (the IP address is blurred for privacy reasons):

With the information, you can now form the tracker URL. Your tracker URL will be

http://(IP Address):(Port Number)/announce

For example, if your port number is 55641 and your IP address is 209.85.171.100, your tracker URL will be:

http://209.85.171.100:55641/announce

The above is just an example. You will need to substitute it with your IP address and port number you obtained above.

NOTE: Your IP address must also NOT change until you finish sending the files to your friend. This means you should not restart your router or disconnect your dial-up session until you finish sending the files. If your IP address changes, no one can connect to you and the torrent will stall as the peers will not know your new IP. However, activity between peers will continue, just that new peers will not be able to join the torrent. If no one other peer has the complete file when you change IP or disconnect, the torrent will stall.

We will need this tracker URL later, so note it down somewhere for now.

In utorrent, go to Options > Preferences > Advanced

Change the Value of bt.enable_tracker to true

Setting bt.enable_tracker to true

On the left, click Bittorrent

Set the IP/Hostname to report to tracker to your IP address we identified just now. You only need the IP address, do not include the port number. In our example, it would be:

209.85.171.100

You're set! Click OK.

Creating the Torrent

You cannot change any part of the download once it is created. For example, if you create a torrent from a folder named 'WEDDING', you must not modify the contents of the folder by adding any new files to the folder as those will not get sent.

Lets start to create a torrent.

Place all your files that you want to share in one folder.

Start uTorrent (if it is already not running)

Click File and then Create New Torrent...

Under Select Source, select the folder containing the files you want to share by clicking on Add directory

Under Trackers: add your tracker server. If you are using utorrent's built-in tracker, follow the format stated above. For example, if your port number is 55641 and IP address is 209.85.171.100, your tracker server will be:

http://209.85.171.100:55641/announce

Otherwise, if you are using public trackers, simply add the tracker address into the Trackers box.

If you are using utorrent's built-in tracker, under Trackers, add another line with an entry replacing your IP address with 'localhost' but leaving the port as the same value. For example, if your port number is 55641, the new line will be:

http://localhost:55641/announce

Add a comment to describe your torrent under Comment. This is optional and only helps for torrents in public trackers so that people can easily identify the contents of the torrent

Tick the boxes labeled Start seeding and Private torrent. If you are going to upload this torrent in a public network for *anyone* to download (e.g. ISOHunt or OpenBitTorrent), do NOT tick Private Torrent.

It should now look something like this:

Create New Torrent, with the boxes filled in. If you are not using utorrent's built in embedded tracker, you don't need to have the 2nd line under Trackers

You're almost set! To make the torrent, click 'Create and save as...'. uTorrent will begin hashing the files and then asks you where to save the resulting torrent file. Put it in a location you can remember. You will need this file later.

Click Close.

You should see the torrent in your list with a green up arrow (like this: ) with the status Seeding.

If the arrow is red and you are using the built-in tracker,

Did you set the port correctly?

Did you add the localhost entry as stated above?

Did you set bt.enable_tracker to true?

Double-click the torrent row and check the list of Trackers. If it is wrong, delete and recreate the torrent again following the steps outlined above.

If the arrow is red and you are using an external tracker,

Double-click the torrent and check the list of Trackers to ensure it matches the value provided by the tracker operator. If it is wrong, delete and recreate the torrent again

If you are using another computer to host the tracker, make sure that computer is setup for port forwarding correctly.

You may need to upload your torrent at the tracker website and download it back again. After downloading it back, open the torrent in uTorrent and set the Savefolder as the same folder you selected when you created the torrent. uTorrent will recheck and automatically begin seeding the file.

The tracker may require registration or some other action from you. Check the tab Trackers > Status column for the details of the error.

You're now set and are seeding the torrent!

Getting your Friend to Download

It's simple - just send the torrent to your friend and your friend simply has to add it to his favorite bittorrent software (such as uTorrent). Just like downloading any other torrent!

Send (via email or any other method you prefer) the torrent file that you saved in the previous step to all the people you want to share the files with.

Your friends simply need to add the torrent to their favorite bittorrent software such as uTorrent, Bit Comet, Azureus, etc..

Checking For Activity

Give it some time (up to a minute) for your friend to connect to you. You should see your upload rate start to increase with every peer that begins to download from you. Activity can be monitored in the Peers tab, after you select the torrent row.

Some public trackers may request utorrent to update trackers at only a certain interval (e.g. 30 minutes). If you are not able to right-click the torrent and click 'Update Tracker', the only thing you can do is wait till utorrent gets a new list of peers from the tracker. uTorrent's embedded tracker updates every 5 minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1)

Must my friend use a torrent client to download my files?Yes, but you don't really have to install any software to download it. Sites such as Torrent Relay and BitLet allow a user to download the torrent without installing any software. However, when you use such sites, you are letting those sites know information about the torrent you are downloading.

2)

My internet is slow / online gaming is full of lag / how do I control how much upload bandwidth I use for a particular torrent?You need to slow down your upload rate. Right-click the utorrent icon in the bottom right at the system tray > Upload Limit > (set a lower rate).

3)

My peers are receiving the error messages "invalid http reply" or "connection closed by peer"?Most likely your ISP is interfering with the utorrent server. The workaround is to tell your peers to manually add your IP to the peer list. Assuming your peers are using uTorrent,

Click on the torrent row

Click on the Peers tab at the bottom area

Right-click anywhere on a blank area in the list that appears for that tab

Click "Add Peer..."

Enter the IP address and port number of the person hosting the file. For example, following my example above, we would tell our peers to add

209.85.171.100:55641

Click OK

You should see a new peer appear on the list. The tracker errors will continue and can be ignored.

Another alternative would be to use public trackers instead. Note that using public trackers can end in people you don't know downloading your torrent.

4)

What solutions are there if I am not able to perform port forwarding? If you still can't get the green port forward to work, you will manually need to add peers as none of the peers can connect directly to your tracker. Note that those peers must be able to perform port forward successfully i.e. get the green mark when testing the port forward function above. To add peers manually, you will need their ip address and port number for each peer in the following format: <ip address>:<port>. For example

209.85.171.100:55641

Once the torrent is seeding, go to the Peers tab, right click on a blank area, click 'Add Peer...' and enter the string above for each peer in the seeding computer.
If even other peers are not able to port forward, you should either use a public tracker or find another computer who can host the tracker (not the actual download). Then when you create the torrent, specify the tracker as the other computer's IP. No 'localhost' tracker is required in this case. Ensure that all parties are using at least uTorrent v2 to take advantage of the UDP hole punching feature.

Download and extract this zip file.
Copy the OEM folder to C:\Windows\System32
You will need to accept the UAC prompt and have administrator rights.
Run the registry file.Accept the UAC prompt and then select yes.
The Dell logos and Dell Online Support will be added to system properties.
This will work in all versions of Windows 7.

Download and extract this zip file.
Copy the OEM folder to C:\Windows\System32
You will need to accept the UAC prompt and have administrator rights.
Run the registry file.Accept the UAC prompt and then select yes.
The Dell logos and Dell Online Support will be added to system properties.
This will work in all versions of Windows 7.

How to downgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate to Professional or Home Premium?I hope this tutorial will help for those who wants to downgrade from your Windows 7 Ultimate to Professional or Home Premium. Normally this option is not possible. We are going to do a small hack in registry to allow the downgrade option.

* For downgrading do not boot from Windows 7 installation DVD. * Boot to your running windows desktop and start the installation from DVD by running "setup.exe". While configuring you will be asked two options "Upgrade" or "Custom". Click Upgrade option and it will start the progress. * After successful downgrading, You can see your downgraded Windows Home Premium or Professional.* That's it!

All versions and editions of Windows 7 , windows 8 and Windows Vista has to be activated, including copies of Windows 7 and Windows Vista licenses acquired through either retail or volume licensing channels. Although by default the Windows operating system can run for free for 30 days (extendable to 120 days with rearm) as evaluation or trial period, however without proper activation, end-users will be kept reminded with frequent messages to activate the system, and the system may be unusable if not activated post activation-free period expiry date.
Thus, it’s important to ensure that the Windows 7 or Vista is activated, especially for machine that requires repetitive activation tokens at regular interval, such as Windows operating system activated with KMS (Key Management Server) for large corporations on volume licensing agreements.

In case you want to check and verify the activation status of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, here’s the way to check and see the Windows Vista or Windows 7 activation status. The trick works on any versions of Windows 7 and Vista, regardless of activation method, including retail product key, KMS or MAK (Multiple Activation Key).

Type cmd or Command Prompt in Start Menu, then right click on the first result (cmd.exe or Command Prompt) and select Run as administrator to open a Command Prompt window in elevated privilege mode.

The resulting dialog box will display the activation status of the system, with either a text description such as “The machine is permanently activated” or via License Status entry, where “Licensed” means activated.

SLMgr (or SLMgr.vbs) is a VBscript built-in with Windows 7 and Vista as Software Licensing Manager, a tool that manages product activation, license and product key. It’s a command line utility, and hence the need of DOS console. Alternatively, user can just check on the System Properties in Windows’s GUI (graphical user interface) by following these steps:

Open Start Menu, and right click on Computer.

Select Properties on the right click context menu.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and the Windows activation status together with Product ID are listed under Windows activation section.